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he joins us tonight from the c.m.e. group in chicago. >> thanks for having me back, tom. >> tom: you're looking for dividends in this market, with that in mind, what kind of stock market returns do you think investors should expect? >> i think in the short run, short run meaning the next three to six months, i think if you can get somewhere around a 5% to 6% return, you're going to be doing pretty well. i have a feeling we're going to see a market that is fairly range-bound here for the remainder of the year. thus it will be a two yards and a cloud of dust type market. if you can get return, especially from dividend yields, which i think are pretty good. that's what you should be looking at right now. >> tom: 5 or 6% over six months is 10 or 12%. that's much better than historic average? >> i think there is a potential for that. i think it will be back-loaded in the last three months as opposed to the remainder of this year. i think the market will probably struggle for the remainder of this year. january and february o
he joins us tonight from the c.m.e. group in chicago. >> thanks for having me back, tom. >> tom: you're looking for dividends in this market, with that in mind, what kind of stock market returns do you think investors should expect? >> i think in the short run, short run meaning the next three to six months, i think if you can get somewhere around a 5% to 6% return, you're going to be doing pretty well. i have a feeling we're going to see a market that is fairly range-bound...
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he joins us for an exclusive interview about our trade issues with china. you're watching "nightly business report" for thursday, september 23. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. president obama today met with china's premier in new york city, and, susie the leaders of the world's two biggest economies pledged to work together on boosting the global recovery. >> susie: but tom, in their public remarks, the men didn't talk about china's undervalued currency. instead, that's said to have topped the agenda for their private meeting. the issue-- keeping china's currency artificially low puts american exports at a disadvantage overseas. >> tom: lawmakers in washington, meantime, are closer than ever to acting on threats to penalize china over its currency. earlier today, i caught up with u.s. trade representa
he joins us for an exclusive interview about our trade issues with china. you're watching "nightly business report" for thursday, september 23. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. president obama today met...
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tonight's "street critique" guest joins us from the bank of new york. it is jonathan chaplin at credit suisse. welcome to "nightly business report." >> thanks, tom. >> tom: what has been fueling this performance that we've seen over the last quarter or so in telecom? >> i think it is pretty straightforward. it is primarily one thing: it's yield. as investors get concerned about growth concerns for the economy, 6% dividend yield for at&t and verizon stocks looks in increasingly compelling. you've got a better prospect of getting a return from that yield than other sectors in the economy. >> tom: it sounds like quite a defensive play. but what about the growth expectations for this sector? are there any? >> it is not going to be a sector that grows the top line at g.d.p. or above for the foreseeable future. but this is a company that can -- an industry that can generate a fair amount of earnings growth in the low-growth economic environment. so with 1% revenue growth, telecom companies can generally knock out 3 3 plus percent earnings growth. >> tom: one
tonight's "street critique" guest joins us from the bank of new york. it is jonathan chaplin at credit suisse. welcome to "nightly business report." >> thanks, tom. >> tom: what has been fueling this performance that we've seen over the last quarter or so in telecom? >> i think it is pretty straightforward. it is primarily one thing: it's yield. as investors get concerned about growth concerns for the economy, 6% dividend yield for at&t and verizon...
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so 10 year us-- u.s. yields down towards the crisis lows that has been something that weighed on the dollar broadly but especially against the yen. >> tom: let's look at a 12 month chart of the dollar against the yen n may it took 59 yen to buy one u.s. dollar, today closer to 83. that is but about a 12% drop if the dollar's value yens the yen. does it show any signs of stopping? >> i think this is a patience game for a lot of investors who already started selling the yen. but i do think at some point the yen is going to weaken. it is just a 3459er of when, not if. why it is a when, in the case of japan you have entrenched deflation. the strong yen makes that work. interest rates are already ten basis points. they can't cut them much further. they are already trying quantity at that timeive easing to add liquidity and create some inflation in the market. there is not much left they can do to try to get some inflation going in their economy to support growth except the yen. and we're starting to hear that
so 10 year us-- u.s. yields down towards the crisis lows that has been something that weighed on the dollar broadly but especially against the yen. >> tom: let's look at a 12 month chart of the dollar against the yen n may it took 59 yen to buy one u.s. dollar, today closer to 83. that is but about a 12% drop if the dollar's value yens the yen. does it show any signs of stopping? >> i think this is a patience game for a lot of investors who already started selling the yen. but i do...
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so, silver is used around the world. so, as economic growth improves in places like india, china and the developing nations, that typically can be helpful for silver demand. >> reporter: the rally in metals has been so strong in recent days, some profit taking is expected. but analysts still see the outlook as positive over the months ahead. >> now that we've broken over these new highs, we have long positions on the comex, we certainly have big builds up in the e.t.f.'s, it's possible that we're going to see some profit- taking over the couple of months to come, but i think as we go into the elections we'll still see the pot boiling on gold right now. >> reporter: even at current levels, gold has a long way to go to reach its inflation- adjusted all-time high. that would be between $2,200 and $2,300 an ounce. scott gurvey, "nightly business report," new york. >> suzanne: setting up the new consumer financial protection bureau is a job that can't wait. that's what president obama said today, as he tapped elizabeth warren
so, silver is used around the world. so, as economic growth improves in places like india, china and the developing nations, that typically can be helpful for silver demand. >> reporter: the rally in metals has been so strong in recent days, some profit taking is expected. but analysts still see the outlook as positive over the months ahead. >> now that we've broken over these new highs, we have long positions on the comex, we certainly have big builds up in the e.t.f.'s, it's...
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jeanine poggi reports for the street.com and joins us. welcome to nightly business report. >> >> thank you for having me. >> there are two broadly diversified retail exchange stocks. how diversified are they. >> two of them. they're pretty diversified. i would say the spider retail is more diversified stretching across the sector withholdings from tiffany and nordstrom to amazon and netflix. it's very equally weighed. >> the ticker simple is xrt. it has a broad basket of stocks, 65 in all. year to date up just under 1%. when we look at the stocks it holds the biggest weighting is less than 3% of over all. does this make it more aggressive or defensive? >> this a more aggressive etf. it's ac equally weighed. they can have a bigger sway than other etfs. >> the ticker is rth. compared to it's relative it's 18 stocks big. year to date down 7 percent plus. less diversified. 20% is in wal-mart. better than 10% each in home depot and amazon. is this more of a consumer staple retail. >> absolutely. this is for someone who doesn't feel the consume
jeanine poggi reports for the street.com and joins us. welcome to nightly business report. >> >> thank you for having me. >> there are two broadly diversified retail exchange stocks. how diversified are they. >> two of them. they're pretty diversified. i would say the spider retail is more diversified stretching across the sector withholdings from tiffany and nordstrom to amazon and netflix. it's very equally weighed. >> the ticker simple is xrt. it has a broad...
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thank you for joining us. have a great night, susie. >> susie: i hope you have a great evening as well. i am a susie gharib. good night everyone, thanks for watching. we hope to see you all again tomorrow night. >> nightly business report is made possible by: you you this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> more information about investing is available in "nightly business report's" videos. to order this dvd, call 1-800- play-pbs or visit online at shoppbs.org. >> be more. pbs.
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we want to use that and use our associates to help drive us into the digital space. >> among the new titles he hopes will drive sales a familiar name to those older gamers, a new conkey kong game is due out before thanksgiving. >> susie: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: the consumer price index from august is released. our "market monitor" guest is elaine garzarelli, president of garzarelli capital. also tomorrow, household products tarn-x and c.l.r. are well-known brands. but did you know they're made by a small family business? we'll introduce you to the people behind jelmar in our "all in the family" series. mortgage rates inched higher for a second week in a row. freddie mac says the average rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage was 4.37%. while that's just off the historic low set two weeks ago, cheap borrowing costs haven't meant a boost in home sales. economists think that's because people are worried about job security and the bumpy recovery. >> tom: meanwhile, lenders took back more homes in august than any month since the mortgage crisis began. real estate data firm
we want to use that and use our associates to help drive us into the digital space. >> among the new titles he hopes will drive sales a familiar name to those older gamers, a new conkey kong game is due out before thanksgiving. >> susie: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: the consumer price index from august is released. our "market monitor" guest is elaine garzarelli, president of garzarelli capital. also tomorrow, household products tarn-x and c.l.r. are well-known...
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coming up, he'll tell us what stocks he's buying. >> susie: b.p. today released its own findings about what went wrong on the deepwater horizon rig. the oil giant takes some responsibility for the deadly disaster, but says it was a chain of events involving multiple companies that led to the accident. b.p. began its investigation immediately after the explosion and released the results today in a 200-page report. stephanie dhue has more. >> reporter: today's report says the problem started with a bad cement job that caused dangerous gases to leak into the well undetected. crew members misread tests and thought the well was under control, and didn't act until it was too late. the blowout preventer, which should have sealed the well, failed. b.p. took responsibility for its decisions on the rig, but also blamed halliburton for the cement job and rig operator transocean, which maintained the blowout preventer. transocean called b.p.'s report a "self-serving attempt to conceal... b.p.'s fatally flawed well design." b.p. says the well design is sound an
coming up, he'll tell us what stocks he's buying. >> susie: b.p. today released its own findings about what went wrong on the deepwater horizon rig. the oil giant takes some responsibility for the deadly disaster, but says it was a chain of events involving multiple companies that led to the accident. b.p. began its investigation immediately after the explosion and released the results today in a 200-page report. stephanie dhue has more. >> reporter: today's report says the problem...
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it brings us more access to new york's laguardia airport, as well as first-time access for us to reagan national airport in washington d.c.. >> susie: where kelly, why did you do it now? >> i feel like we're ready now. first of all, things are so much better today than they were a year ago. our profit outlook is solid. we have plenty of cash on hand. we have a very strong balance sheet, with credit rating agencies affirming our credit rating today. so financially we're very well prepared for this. we also have a very strong leadership team. who is ready to add this major task to our list. and then we have the tools in place today that we just haven't had in the past to optimize our route network and really generate significant revenues from optimizing schedules and also revenue management techniques. so it's been a very challenging economic environment. we would like to grow. we just haven't had opportunities to grow, and we're just delighted that we found this opportunity where with it we can grow and grow profitably. >> susie: analyst, call this deal a game changer. what do you think
it brings us more access to new york's laguardia airport, as well as first-time access for us to reagan national airport in washington d.c.. >> susie: where kelly, why did you do it now? >> i feel like we're ready now. first of all, things are so much better today than they were a year ago. our profit outlook is solid. we have plenty of cash on hand. we have a very strong balance sheet, with credit rating agencies affirming our credit rating today. so financially we're very well...
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tom. >> tom: so draw the thread for us. how can investors be certain that a company's innovation leads to profit for the company and thusly to shareholders. >> if they get it right, consumers and other purchasers love what they have and keep buying. and the example is apple. they keep bringing out the great products. if you look at their numbers, profit was about $2 billion in 2006. and it is about $8 billion as of last year. the numbers add up, and the share price from 50 to 250 in that timeframe. >> tom: what is interesting about the list you brought along with you tonight is it is an non-technology list of innovators. beginning with wal-mart. innovation versus consumer spending. it is it consumer spending that cowbts at w.m.t.? >> i wanted to look at how innovation affects regular companies, like a retailer like wal-mart. the idea is wal-mart has gone green. the innovation factor is based on the top 50 most innovative companies. wal-mart rated very high because it is investing in sustainable effort. it is very ambitious,
tom. >> tom: so draw the thread for us. how can investors be certain that a company's innovation leads to profit for the company and thusly to shareholders. >> if they get it right, consumers and other purchasers love what they have and keep buying. and the example is apple. they keep bringing out the great products. if you look at their numbers, profit was about $2 billion in 2006. and it is about $8 billion as of last year. the numbers add up, and the share price from 50 to 250 in...
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. >> susie: good evening, everyone, and thanks for joining us for this labor day special edition. the jobs picture just keeps getting worse. tom, back in january, the economy was adding jobs and the recovery was gaining momentum. then europe's debt woes exploded and the global recovery came to a grinding halt. >> tom: susie, the latest employment numbers aren't much help. 54,000 jobs disappeared from u.s. payrolls in august, and the unemployment rate hit 9.6 >> susie: so how bad is the employment picture, and how long will it take to get back to where we were before the recession started? suzanne pratt puts it in perspective. >> reporter: it seems lately that signs like these are extremely hard to come by. even though the great recession may technically be over, the labor market is far from recovered. the nation's unemployment rate hit 10% late last year and has hovered just below there ever since. but economist dan greenhaus says that widely quoted number understates the magnitude of the job crisis and the inequalities within it. >> if you're an advanced degree white guy working
. >> susie: good evening, everyone, and thanks for joining us for this labor day special edition. the jobs picture just keeps getting worse. tom, back in january, the economy was adding jobs and the recovery was gaining momentum. then europe's debt woes exploded and the global recovery came to a grinding halt. >> tom: susie, the latest employment numbers aren't much help. 54,000 jobs disappeared from u.s. payrolls in august, and the unemployment rate hit 9.6 >> susie: so how...
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joining us now with more on h-p is tom smith, equity analyst at standard and poor's. hi, tom. >> hi, thanks for having me. >> susieso is leo apotheker the right person for this job. >> hp could have chosen from all across silicon valley and they chose him. he is a guy with some stormy tenure in his last days at hp but he knows software deeply as does ray lane and i think he can steer the company in a useful direction by taking them into software. >> susie: so actually that is interesting. both-of-these two new top executives have software expertise. do you think that means that hp is going to move more in that direction and away from hardware and services? >> well, i think so. i think they have recently built up the services through the eds acquisition and hardware through 3come, the palm, the three par acquisitions this area and some others. so i think they are really set up well in hardware to expand in a comprehensive data center offering. but you want hardware software and services and software where they are looking-- lacking in terms of what shows as a percentag
joining us now with more on h-p is tom smith, equity analyst at standard and poor's. hi, tom. >> hi, thanks for having me. >> susieso is leo apotheker the right person for this job. >> hp could have chosen from all across silicon valley and they chose him. he is a guy with some stormy tenure in his last days at hp but he knows software deeply as does ray lane and i think he can steer the company in a useful direction by taking them into software. >> susie: so actually...
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captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. the nation's retailers had a relatively strong back-to-school selling season, and susie, that has investors and traders wondering how the sector will do this holiday season. >> susie: tom, the commerce department reports retail sales rose for the second straight month in august. sales were up a better-than- expected four-tenths of a percent last month, while july's sales were also revised higher. >> tom: with "back to school" in the rear view mirror, retailers are looking ahead to the holiday selling season. many stores are deciding now how many temporary workers to hire, if any. as erika miller explains, those decisions can provide some important hints about the strength of holiday sales. >> reporter: in brooklyn, under the manhattan bridge, is a gift shop called stewart/stand. it's a family-owned business-- penelope runs the store, while her brother-in-law paul is in charge of the wholesale division. though it's only september, the two are already finalizing holiday hiring decisions
captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. the nation's retailers had a relatively strong back-to-school selling season, and susie, that has investors and traders wondering how the sector will do this holiday season. >> susie: tom, the commerce department reports retail sales rose for the second straight month in august. sales were up a better-than- expected four-tenths of a percent last month, while july's sales were also revised higher. >>...